Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, September 2018 - present. Assistant Professor, National University, Pakistan, Ph.D. Degree King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,

Research Interests

  • Tracking of Sparse Signals.
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Signal Processing
  • Bayesian Prediction
  • Sparse Recovery

Awards and Distinctions

  • KAUST Graduate Research Competition Award, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2014
  • King Abdullah Fellowship for Doctoral Studies, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011
  • Honors in M.Sc. Thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 2010
  • Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, 2008

Qualifications

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Electrical Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, 2016
Master of Engineering (MEng)
Information and Communication Technology, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, 2009
Master of Engineering (MEng)
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 2009
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Hamdard University, Pakistan, 2006

Languages

English
Full professional proficiency
Hindi
Native or bilingual proficiency

Selected Publications

  • Sana, F. ., Isselbacher, E. M., Singh, J. P., Heist, K. ., Pathik, B. ., & Armoundas, A. A. (2020). Wearable Devices for Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring: JACC State-of-the-Art Review.
  • Sana, F. ., Katterbauer, K. ., Al-Naffouri, T. Y., & Hoteit, I. . (2016). Orthogonal Matching Pursuit for Enhanced Recovery of Sparse Geological Structures With the Ensemble Kalman Filter.
  • Sana, F. ., Ballal, T. ., Shadaydeh, M. ., Hoteit, I. ., & Al-Naffouri, T. Y. (2019). Fetal ECG extraction exploiting joint sparse supports in a dual dictionary framework.
  • Sana, F. ., Ballal, T. ., Al-Naffouri, T. Y., & Hoteit, I. . (2014). Low-complexity wireless monitoring of respiratory movements using ultra-wideband impulse response estimation.